European Games

The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition contested by athletes from countries served by national Olympic committees within the European Olympic Committees (EOC), the regional association for such committees. The EOC represents European nations and several transcontinental countries. An EOC Refugee team is also included. The Games were envisioned and are governed by the EOC which announced their launch at its 41st General Assembly in Rome, on 8 December 2012.

The European Games are the 5th continental Games in the Olympic tradition to be initiated, after the Asian Games, Pan American Games, Pacific Games and African Games. Therefore, as of 2015, every sporting continent has continental games in the Olympic tradition.

The European Games are not related to the European Championships, a separate multi-sport event organised by individual European sports federations, bringing together the individual European Championships of sports such as athletics, swimming, artistic gymnastics, cycling, rowing, golf, and triathlon under a single 'brand' on a four-year cycle beginning in 2018, and broadcast by agreement with the EBU.Scotland to host 2018 European Sports Championships
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The European Games are also the third event created and organised by the EOC. The European Youth Olympic Festivals, both winter and summer, and broadly mirroring the Youth Olympic Games are organised biennially, while the quadrennial Games of the Small State of Europe (not to be confused with the separate Island Games) provide competition opportunities for the handful of microstates in the European continent. As of 2024 there are no EOC endorsed European Winter Games.

List of European Games

The 2015 European Games, the first edition of the event, took place in Baku, Azerbaijan in June 2015, and further editions were planned to be held every four years thereafter. The 2019 edition was held in Minsk, Belarus from 21 to 30 June on a reduced scale when the original host, the Netherlands, withdrew. The 2023 edition was held in Kraków, Poland from 21 June to 2 July. The 2027 edition will be held in Istanbul, Turkey.

Participating nations

As of the 2023 edition, 50 nations whose National Olympic Committee is recognized by the European Olympic Committee have competed at the European Games. As of 2023, two of these, Russia and Belarus, are suspended. In addition, a Refugee EOC team has been created to take part.

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Sports

The figures in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport contested at the respective Games.

Medal table

See also

Global Games

* Olympic Games
* World Games

Other EOC-organised events

* European Youth Olympic Festival
* Games of the Small States of Europe

Other pan-European Games

* European Championships (multi-sport event)
* European Para Championships

Community-based multisport events involving EOC members

* Commonwealth Games
* Jeux de la Francophonie
* Lusofonia Games
* Mediterranean Games
* Island Games

Other continental games in the Olympic Tradition

* African Games
* Asian Games
** South Asian Games
** West Asian Games
** Central Asian Games
** Southeast Asian Games
* Pacific Games
* Pan American Games
** South American Games

References

External links

Official website

{{International multi-sport events

Recurring sporting events established in 2015
European international sports competitions
Multi-sport events in Europe
2015 establishments in Europe
Quadrennial sporting events